Sorry Germany, the mystic mollusc has spoken Soccer fans across Germany will be hoping a psychic cephalopod's fabled skills of prophecy have failed him after Paul the octopus predicted a German loss in their World Cup semi-final with Spain. With a 10...
Maradona, Argentina enjoy warm welcome home Diego Maradona and his Argentina team received a warm welcome from thousands of fans who turned out to greet them Sunday despite the side's World Cup quarter-finals elimination. 尽管阿根廷没能挺进本...
Cuban Jabulani juggler sitting pretty 古巴人坐颠普天同庆球创纪录 Cuban Erick Hernandez on Thursday said he had set a world record for juggling the Jabulani World Cup ball, while sitting down. 古巴人埃里克赫尔南德兹于上周四称...
Men less engaged in work than women Men in Britain are less engaged in their work compared with women until the final years of employment when they get a late surge of enthusiasm, according to a survey. 一项调查显示，英国男性的工作热情不...
Gum boots designed with a blast to charge mobile phones Modern festival-goers who dread ending up with a dead mobile phone battery after days stuck in a muddy field with no electric plug power points may now have a solution -- power boots. 喜爱参加...
An octopus in Germany called Paul who has shot to stardom for his spot-on World Cup predictions forecast on Tuesday a quarter-final win by Germany over Argentina. But in view perhaps of the tougher opposition that Diego Maradona's side will pose Germ...
Robert Pattinson, the star of the Twlight film franchise, has been named one of the most powerful celebrities in the world after appearing on the Forbes list for the first time. The 24-year-old, who plays the vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight Sag...
Commanders do not allow sexual intercourse on the International Space Station, it has been disclosed. We are a group of professionals, said Alan Poindexter, a NASA commander, during a visit to Tokyo, when asked about the consequences if astronauts bo...
The shaggy manes and bushy moustaches of soccer days past have been replaced by bleached beards, city boy crops and headbands at the World Cup in South Africa. Players hairdos are a perennial talking point at soccer's biggest spectacle and players fa...
The Japanese government has launched a campaign encouraging people to go to bed and get up extra early in order to reduce household carbon dioxide emissions. The Morning Challenge campaign, unveiled by the Environment Ministry, is based on the premis...
